According to a study by Nerdwallet, the average American in 2015 carried nearly $16,000 in credit card debt and the average household spent just under $7,000 a year in interest charges. (10% of average annual income). We need to redefine what being rich means. I propose we redefine rich.
[callout]This episode originally appeared on the Family Before Fortune Podcast which is now the Modern Leadership Podcast. To listen to Modern Leadership click here. To see the Family Before Fortune Podcast archive click here.[/callout]
Episode Summary: Redefine Rich & Make a Billion Dollars
[callout]Being rich is the inner peace and happiness to spend time with those you love, serve those that need you and spend time in the present appreciating the abundance of good you already have.[/callout]
- [shareable cite=”Dada Vaswani” text=”Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality… #quote”]Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.[/shareable]
- [shareable cite=”Frederick Buechner” text=”You can kiss your family…good-bye… #quote”]You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.[/shareable]
- [shareable cite=”Gordon Hinckley” text=”The best antidote I know for worry is work… #quote”]The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.[/shareable]
- [shareable cite=”Sophocles” text=”Tomorrow is tomorrow…. #quote”]Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.[/shareable]
- [shareable cite=”Wayne Dyer” text=”You’ll seldom experience regret for anything…. #quote”]You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.[/shareable]
Making a Billion dollars can be broken down into 2 steps
STEP 1 – Develop a mindset of abundance and understand scarcity
STEP 2 – You can have everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
[shareable cite=”Zig Ziglar” text=”You can have everything you want in life… #quote”]You can have everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.[/shareable]
Book on The Shelf
[callout]Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins & Morten T. Hansen[/callout]
Learning From Leaders
[shareable cite=”Elbert Hubbard” text=”The greatest mistake you can make… #quote”]The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.[/shareable]